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Have you ever wanted to scale a wall like Spiderman? Daredevils have climbed walls over and over, but their feats have been a combination of skill and luck more than anything. Fortunately, like with most other things, you can overcome a lack of rare skill and bravado/stupidity by putting machines to work for you.
(photo: USU News)
Pictured above (and shown in the video below is the machine for the job. The Utah State University “Ascending Aggies” team created this vacuum backpack with suction “gloves” as an answer to an Air Force 90-foot wall-climb competition, beating out 33 other wall-climbing devices. It also earned them an additional $100,000 grant to continue working on it. The 48 pound Personal Vacuum Assisted Climber (PVAC) is designed to strap to the back of a brave soldier for the vertical trek and can support weights up to 700 pounds.
If you watch the video, you may note that the only thing upstaging how cool this thing is would be the amount of noise it makes. I don’t think the Air Force is going to sneak up on anyone with this early model, but the team is already working on plans to make it quieter and more efficient. Now if they could just get it to shoot high-tension webbing from our wrists, we’d be all set.
Wow, that is really cool. Never thought I’d see an honest to goodness wall scaling device that effective. Now to see how quiet they can make it.
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Well this is really cool and amazing! I think there are a lot of people who will be interested and excited for this one.. Thanks!
Why not use a normal ladder.
Why not use a normal ladder??
 I’d see an honest to goodness wall scaling device that effective. Now to see how quiet they can make it.
Portable walls, such as room dividers or portable partitions, are used to take a large open space and effectively divide it into smaller rooms.